Carpet-beater.



P. P. JOHNSON. CARPET BEATER.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 9, 1912.

Patented July 29 s E s s E N n W ATTO R N EY UNITED STATES FRANK P.JOHNSON, OF DANVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA.

CARPET-BEATER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed May 9, 1912. Serial No. 696,217.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK P. JOHNSON, citizen of the United States,residing at Danville, in the county of Montour and State ofPennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Carpet-Beater, of which thefollowing is a specification.

This invention has reference to improvements in carpet heaters, and inthemethod of making the same, and its object is to provide a cheaplyconstructed andeffective carpet beater so well balanced that theoperation of the device is greatly facilitated.

The carpet beater of the present invention comprises an active portionmade of one piece of wire of suitable gage so arranged as to produce anexpanded beating head possessing suflicient elasticity, but at the sametime well braced against liability of breakage, and the terminalportions of the wire strand of which the beating head is constructed aretwisted into a ferrule adapted to receive and retain the handle and soarranged as to provide an elastic sustaining means for the head ofsuflicient stiffness to permit the delivery of vigorous blows.

The invention will be best understood from a consideration of thefollowing detailed description, taken in connection with theaccompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, with-thefurther understanding that while the drawings show a practicalembodiment of the invention it may assume other practical forms so longas they do not mark any material departure from the salient features ofthe invention with respect to the carpet beater as a device or to themanner of producing it.

In the drawings :Figure 1 is a view of'a carpet beating head of thepresent invention at an intermediate step in the manufacture thereof.Fig. 2 is a similar view showing further progress in the manufacture ofthe carpet beating head. Fig. 3 is a view of the completed head with thehandle in position to be inserted in the ferrule.

In the production of the carpet beater of the present invention a singlepiece of wire of appropriate length is employed, and sincemany carpetheaters are made in succession, it is customary to take off the wirefrom a roll. In the manufacture of the head a single piece of wire 1 isformed intermediately with a short bend 2, and then the wire is formedon each side of the bend 2 into a series of return bends 3. The wire isthen twisted together for a short distance, as indicated at l, thenspaced apart as shown at 5, and again brought together and twisted, asindicated at 6, in which stage of the manufacture the two ends of thewire strand extend approximately in opposite directions.

substantially perpendicular to'the plane of that portion of the beaterhead made up of the return bends 3, such portion of the head being inthe form of a substantially flat and laterally extended or expandedloop. The two twists 4 and 6 with the intermediate part 5 are now bentin a manner to extend across the loop defined by the bends 3 until theterminal extensions of the twist 6 lie transversely of the interior ofthe bend 2, after which the free terminal portions at the end of thetwist 6 are additionally twisted as indicated at 7 to embrace the middleportion of the bend 2, and then the terminal portions are finallytwisted into a ferrule 8 adapted to the reduced end 9 of a handle 10,the latter being of appropriate length and diameter for the purpose. Theferrule 8 is substantially a helix made up of two portions of the wirewound together and will closely embrace the end 9 with sufficient gripto prevent accidental displacement.

The head made up of a single piece of wire has its marginal portions inthe shape of large crimping and is intermediately stiffened by thetwisted parts substantially diametrical of the head, while the part 5together with the marginal portions of the head form an expanded beatingportion. That part of the ferrule 8 where joining the twisted part 7provides a certain elasticity which permits the head to spring withreference to the handle, so as to impart to the fabric to be beaten amore effective blow than would result if the parts were stiff andunyielding, while the expanded form of the head serves to dislodge dirtfrom an extended area at each blow of the beater.

The degree of elasticity of the ferrule 8 is due to the length of saidferrule over the length of the reduced end 9 of the handle 10, theferrule being sufiiciently longer than the end 9 to cause the desiredflexibility of the beater.

Since the entire beater head is made of a single piece of wire there areno ends to unhook or come loose during the use of the device.

Patented July 29, 1913.

Whatis claimed is z? t l 1. A carpet beater provided with a head formedof a single piece of wire bent intermediately into a laterally ekpanded100p terminating in a portion having the wire of the head twistedtogether and extending substantially diametrically across theloop andjoined to the opposite side by a twist and the terminal portions of thewire being formed into an elastic ferrule for the reception of a handle.1

2; A carpet beater provided with a head formed of one piece of Wirehaving a short intermediate bend and from thence extending'in the formof an expanded loop and then brought together and twisted, the twist= edportion being continued in a substantially diametric direction acrossthe loop to the intermediate bend and there locked to the loop bytwisting about the bend, the remainder of the wire being twisted into anelastic ferrule for the reception of a handle.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto aflixedmy signature in the presence of two witnesses.

FRANK P. JOHNSON.

Witnesses JoHN A. WEITZEL, LEWIS L. MAINZER.

Ciiii ies at this patient may be obtained ior ijye teen t s eaql i byaddressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C.

